The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)

Robert A. Wilson, Frank C. Keil

MIT Press, Sep 4, 2001 - Psychology - 1096 pages

Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field. At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

Contents

• Preface: xiii
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences: 1
• Aging Memory and the Brain: 7
• Ambiguity: 14
• xii: 15
• Anaphora: 20
• Animal Navigation Neural Networks: 26
• Artifacts and Civilization: 35
• Attention in the Animal Brain: 41
• Audition: 48
• Auditory Plasticity: 56
• Automaticity: 63
• Bayesian Learning: 70
• X: 72
• Behaviorism: 77
• Binding Problem: 85
• Boas Franz: 91
• Broca Paul: 97
• Categorization: 104
• Cognitive Linguistics: 134
• Cognitive Modeling Symbolic: 141
• Color Vision: 147
• Computation: 153
• Computational Learning Theory: 159
• Computational Neuroscience: 166
• Computational Vision: 172
• Conceptual Change: 179
• Connectionism Philosophical Issues: 186
• Consciousness Neurobiology of: 193
• Control Theory: 199
• Creativity: 205
• Cultural Psychology: 211
• Cultural Variation: 217
• Darwin Charles: 218
• Deductive Reasoning: 225
• Discourse: 231
• DomainSpecificity: 238
• Dynamic Approaches to Cognition: 244
• Ebbinghaus Hermann: 251
• Ecological Validity: 257
• Eliminative Materialism: 265
• Emotion and the Human Brain: 271
• Episodic vs Semantic Memory: 278
• Ethics and Evolution: 284
• Evolution: 290
• Expertise: 298
• Explanatory Gap: 304
• Feature Detectors: 311
• Folk Biology: 317
• FrameBased Systems: 324
• Frege Gottlob 327: 442
• Language Impairment Developmental: 446
• Language Production: 453
• Learning: 460
• Lexicon: 467
• Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis: 475
• Literacy: 481
• Logical Form Origins of: 488
• Luria Alexander Romanovich: 494
• Machine Vision: 501
• Malinowski Bronislaw: 507
• Meaning: 513
• Memory Human Neuropsychology: 520
• Mental Representation: 527
• Metacognition: 533
• Metareasoning: 539
• MidLevel Vision: 545
• Mobile Robots: 551
• Modularity and Language: 557
• Nativism History of: 586
• Natural Language Processing: 592
• Neural Plasticity: 598
• Neurotransmitters: 605
• Numeracy and Culture: 611
• Oculomotor Control: 618
• ParameterSetting Approaches to Acquisition Creolization: 624
• Penfield Wilder: 631
• Phonological Rules and Processes: 637
• Phonology Neural Basis of: 643
• Pitts Walter: 651
• Possible Worlds Semantics: 659
• Primate Cognition: 666
• Probability Foundations of: 673
• Propositional Attitudes: 678
• Psychoanalysis History of: 685
• Psychophysics: 691
• Rational Agency: 698
• Reading: 705
• Reductionism: 712
• Relevance and Relevance Theory: 719
• Sapir Edward: 726
• Self: 733
• Semantics: 739
• Sensations: 745
• Sexual Attraction Evolutionary Psychology of: 751
• Sign Languages: 758
• Simulation vs TheoryTheory: 765
• Situation Calculus: 771
• Social Cognition: 777
• Sociobiology: 783
• List of Contributors: 901
• Name Index: 913
• Subject Index: 945

About the author

Robert A. Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University, the author of Genes and the Agents of Life, and coeditor of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences and of Explanation and Cognition (MIT Press). He directed the project that built EugenicsArchive.ca and is a director and the executive producer of the documentary Surviving Eugenics.

Frank C. Keil is Professor of Psychology at Yale University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS); Bradford book; EBSCO eBook Collection; MIT Cognet library
• Editors: Robert A. Wilson, Frank C. Keil
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: MIT Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0262731444, 9780262731447
• Length: 1096 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition